Student Opportunities

Gain valuable experience and jump start your career by taking part in internships and other student programs.

Student Volunteers

An unpaid training opportunity to students in high school and college.

Our Student Volunteer Program offers an unpaid training opportunity to students in high school and college, through which they can gain work experience related to their specific
academic programs. The program allows participants to explore career options, as well as develop their personal and professional skills. As a student volunteer, the
participant will be exposed to the Federal work environment and will learn about the missions and responsibilities of various Federal agencies and departments.

Internships

Summer Law Intern Program

Summer Law Interns work in one or more of the branches in the Office of General Counsel -- Commercial Law, Real Estate and Environmental Law, Litigation,
Employment Law and Ethics, Legislative and Correctional Issues, and the Legal Administrative Branch (FOIA). Interns have opportunities to
handle projects from branches outside of their own in order to broaden their legal experience and knowledge. They conduct extensive legal
research on novel issues and draft legal memoranda, opinions, and correspondence. Interns also visit Federal Correctional
Institutions, take tours of various law enforcement branches of the Federal Government, and attend several brown bag lunches with Bureau of Prisons staff.

To be eligible for employment, students must have completed their first semester of law school. Volunteer, work-study, or compensated
positions are available for summer and full-year internships.

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Pathways Student Internship Program

The Pathways Internship Program is designed to provide students enrolled in a wide variety of educational institutions, from high school to graduate level, with
meaningful training and career development opportunities. This program also helps students explore Federal careers while still in school and getting paid for work
performed. Students who successfully complete the program may be eligible for conversion to a permanent position in the civil service. This program replaces the
Student Career Experience Program (SCEP) and Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP).

To be eligible, students must be enrolled in an educational program and have a 2.5 cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA). Students must maintain a 2.5 GPA for the
duration while participating in the program.

Psychology Doctoral Internship Program

For more than 40 years, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) has trained more than 1,000 doctoral-level psychologists and
each of our Psychology Doctoral Internship Programs continues this commitment to training by providing advanced
clinical and counseling graduate students with a well-rounded, high-quality training experience. We seek the
clinical or counseling psychology student whose personal career goals and objectives can be strengthened,
reinforced, and expedited by the training experiences we provide. Our training models seek to facilitate the growth
of those who wish to become well-trained generalists who can also function competently in a correctional environment.
While individual training sites utilize different training techniques and models to achieve this objective, all
sites have several common features.

Interns receive graduated exposure to the clinician role, practicing with greater independence as their skills increase,
always with supervisors available for consultation. Training includes both individual and group supervision,
assignment of challenging, culturally diverse therapeutic cases, and a sequence of didactic seminars designed to
increase each intern's general knowledge as well as his/her understanding of the unique issues involved in the
practice of psychology in a correctional setting. Practice in psychological assessment and opportunities to engage
in research or other scholarly activities are also included during the internship year.

Individual training sites may also provide interns with additional training opportunities unique to that site. For example,
some sites offer experience in such areas as forensic assessment, substance abuse treatment, or behavioral medicine.
Other sites may expose interns to unique treatment populations, such as geriatric, female, HIV+, or violent
offenders.

The Bureau relies heavily upon the doctoral internship program to provide the agency with uniquely qualified entry-level psychologists.
Interns who have proven themselves to be competent clinicians and who are comfortable working within the correctional setting are often
recruited by the Bureau at the end of their internship year.

Individuals interested in a psychology internship position at any of the Bureau's training sites should begin the application process in the early fall.

Graduate Programs

Attorney General's Honors Program

DOJ only hires graduating law students through the Attorney General's Honors Program. The Bureau's has a two-year fellowship that provides Honors
Attorneys the opportunity to experience the wide range of legal practice in the Central Office, and each Honors Attorney will have
the opportunity to practice in three or four different areas.

This program applies to students in their final year of law school who will graduate in the fall or winter prior to the year in which they will be employed,
or in the spring or summer of the year in which they will be employed, are eligible. Judicial Law Clerks are also recruited under the
Honors Program. However, the clerkship must be the first significant legal employment following law school graduation, and it must
begin no later than nine months post-J.D. The amount of time served in the clerkship cannot exceed two years. Only persons who will
conclude their clerkships on or after October 1 in the fall of the year in which they apply are eligible for consideration.

DOJ uses an online application process. Candidates may complete and submit an application electronically through the
Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management's website at www.usdoj.gov/oarm.

Clinical Rotations

Through collaborative and community based clinical rotations, the Bureau of Prisons helps mentor health care students in specially niched correctional
medicine. This is achieved by supporting and encouraging community relationships with local Colleges and Universities. This program is committed
to preparing the student to deal with an under served population in a professional correctional setting while fostering a clinically learned
environment. Students will work closely with a collaborative team of healthcare preceptors to improve medical judgment and clinical skills as
they fulfill their passion and commitment of becoming a successful healthcare professional.

Senior Commissioned Officer Student Training and Extern Program

The Bureau, in conjunction with the
U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), offers
well-qualified students an excellent employment opportunity through the Senior Commissioned Officer Student Training and Extern Program (SRCOSTEP).
Through SRCOSTEP, students in select health-related fields of study are commissioned as Ensigns in PHS during the final year of academic study towards a qualifying degree
or residency. Students receive full salary and benefits in exchange for an employment commitment at the sponsoring agency after graduation. For more information, call 202-353-4110.